Ask HN: Why everyone hate Star trek enterprise
I am watching it for the first time. It's actually pretty good. Especially if you read online critics who seem to deeply hate that show. So my question is why? And am I the only one to enjoy it?
The dog? No. Jumping into encounters and landing parties with little plan and no caution? No. Bringing the dog? NO. (Heck, I would hope that in a first landing anywhere we would use pressure suits, as much to protect their environment from microbes we might carry as the reverse). Not having shields ready in any encounter until after being fired upon? No. Any amount of battle damage being not only survivable, but repairable in deep space without resupply? No. The Phlox character? Very well done. Jolene Blalock? Yes. Your first officer having only skin-tight uniforms that show off her rather amazing figure? Distractingly unrealistic. I liked the cast a lot, generally speaking, but I've never been a fan of Bakula.
Some of the other humanoids they encountered were cartoonish and one-dimensional; others, like the Andorians, were much more complex and believable.
(Spoiler) And what they did in the final episode was artificial and left a sour taste. (Were they cancelled, and that was a reaction by the writers/producers out of spite?)